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William Tell (German: Wilhelm Tell, pronounced [ˈvɪlhɛlm ˈtɛl] ⓘ; French: Guillaume Tell; Italian: Guglielmo Tell; Romansh: Guglielm Tell) is a legendary folk hero of Switzerland. According to the legend, Tell was an expert mountain climber and marksman with a crossbow who assassinated Albrecht Gessler , a tyrannical reeve of the ...
Mary Ann Cotton (née Robson; 31 October 1832 – 24 March 1873) was an English convicted murderer who was executed for poisoning her stepson.Despite her sole conviction for murder, she is believed to have been a serial killer who killed many others including 11 of her 13 children and three of her four husbands for their life insurance policies.
William Tell Told Again is a retelling of the William Tell legend in prose and verse with illustrations. The main prose element was written by P. G. Wodehouse , while Philip Dadd supplied the frontispiece and 15 full-page illustrations, all in colour.
As Swiss legend goes, William Tell became a medieval folk hero when occupying Austrian militants forced him into a sick game: He was forced to fire an arrow into an apple atop his son’s head to ...
Enough is enough. Lauren Conrad revealed that she and her husband, William Tell, are done having kids.. Lauren Conrad and William Tell's Family Photo Album. Read article “I think we’re at ...
While Tell is Swiss, fighting against the Austrians in 1307, Hamm saw his film as a “European story.” “William Tell” was produced by Free Turn Films and Tempo Productions. Germany-based ...
William Tell (German: Wilhelm Tell, German pronunciation: [ˈvɪlhɛlm ˈtɛl] ⓘ) is a drama written by Friedrich Schiller in 1804. The story focuses on the legendary Swiss marksman William Tell as part of the greater Swiss struggle for independence from the Habsburg Empire in the early 14th century.
An attempt to secure public funds to hire an expert for a man accused in the shooting death of a 17-year-old Bolton High School student drew comments from the victim's mother.